Show dp WONDERFUL G WOULD I D Uy By FRANKLIN J J. J MEINE I Editor The American Peoples People Encyclopedia jr IT MUST be that babies are smarter than we think The first word the average baby speaks that obviously has reference to some lome specific object or situation usually occurs at ten or eleven months After Alter actual talking gets well under way way the vocabulary may Increase rather rapidly 1100 or words a year as many as BI 1000 or more with alert children By Dy the time the child Is six years old he is likely to have a vocabulary vocabulary lary of 2500 or words It has been pointed out that the word mama to with varying inflections may mean mama give me mama look or there is ma ma- ma Such a single word sentence is called a rheme theme |